The Cinder Pond by Carroll Watson RANKIN (1864 - 1945)
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Family Life, General

Read by: Betsie Bush in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - The Accident
00:13:33 - 02 - 02 - Part of the Truth
00:24:52 - 03 - 03 - Jeannette's Queer Family
00:37:01 - 04 - 04 - What Was In an Old Trunk
00:50:43 - 05 - 05 - The Sewing Lesson
01:02:49 - 06 - 06 - Mollie
01:15:52 - 07 - 07 - A Matter of Coats
01:26:50 - 08 - 08 - A Shopping Expedition
01:36:17 - 09 - 09 - The Flight
01:49:54 - 10 - 10 - The Arrival
02:03:13 - 11 - 11 - A New Life
02:16:09 - 12 - 12 - A Helpful Grandfather
02:26:52 - 13 - 13 - Banished Friends
02:37:04 - 14 - 14 - At Four A.M.
02:48:49 - 15 - 15 - Allen Rossiter
03:02:21 - 16 - 16 - An Old Album
03:15:05 - 17 - 17 - A Lonely Summer
03:29:27 - 18 - 18 - A Thunderbolt
03:42:51 - 19 - 19 - With the Rossiters
03:51:41 - 20 - 20 - A Missing Family
04:05:33 - 21 - 21 - Old Captain's News
04:17:25 - 22 - 22 - Roger's Razor
04:27:22 - 23 - 23 - A New Friend For Jeanne
04:38:30 - 24 - 24 - Mollie's Babies
04:50:14 - 25 - 25 - The House of Dreams
05:00:09 - 26 - 26 - A Padlocked Door
05:09:29 - 27 - 27 - The Pink Present

Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The factory was abandoned, and following the habits of small towns, the space between the dock and the shore became 'The Cinder Pond.' Jean started life in the colony of squatters that came to live in the shanties on the dock, but fortune, heroism, and a mystery combine to change her fortunes and those of her friends near the Cinder Pond. (Advertising material from the publisher, 1915)More than one girl who reads this story will envy Jeanne her queer little home out on the end of the old dock in Lake Superior. It must indeed have been a fascinating place to live, but Jeanne's father, a gentleman himself, wanted her to grow up to be a lady, so she was sent away to be trained and educated among strangers. They were her own relatives, but they could never be anything but strangers to her, for they had no love in their hearts for the little girl who had come to make a home with them. Only her grandfather learned to love her, for she filled a bright place in his lonely life, and the story tells how he showed his feeling for her and how she was able to go back to Cinder Pond to help her little stepbrothers and -sisters. (Book Review Digest, vol. 11, 1916)An interesting story of a little French girl, who lived with her step-family on a dock near the Cinder Pond and who after several trying experiences finds a good home and real joy in helping care for her several step-brothers and sisters. Though reason for the marriage of Jeannette's father to a shiftless, but kindly Irish woman is unnecessarily emphasized, the story is a very usable one, stamped with Jeanne's friendliness and sincerity. (The Booklist, vol 12, Oct. 1915--July, 1916)

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